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North Korea threatens to take 'corresponding measures' if United Nations adopts sanctions

15 July, 2017

During a UN Security Council meeting last week, Haley threatened secondary sanctions if the council could not agree on new sanctions - though she did not cite China by name. If North Korea were ruled by China, the threat of a nuclear strike from North Korea would vanish and we would only have to worry about the Chinese nuclear weapons, which is already an issue that we have to deal with anyway.

The North wants to negotiate directly with Washington and not with others.

The analysis by 38 North, a Washington-based North Korean monitoring project, was based on satellite images of the radiochemical laboratory at the Yongbyon nuclear plant from September until the end of June, amid rising global concerns over North Korea's nuclear and missile programs.

South Korea's president, Moon Jaein said, "I think that the North Korean question should be solved by peaceful means".

If Pyongyang complies, Seoul could ignore Washington's request.

Economic sanctions appear to have had little effect on reining in the military provocations of the North Korean regime under Kim Jong Un. Firstly, the western media had been consistently playing down and questioning the notion that North Korea even possessed the technological capabilities to conduct nuclear tests.

Park's conservative government said 70 percent of the US dollars paid as wages and fees at Kaesong was channeled to the North's ruling party.

South Korea has developed radar that can detect small drones, according to Seoul's Defense Acquisition Program Administration. These two massive blocs would be confronting one another over the nuclear ambitions of a single rogue nation. Further, China has slowly reduced Hong Kong's level of autonomy, most likely with the goal of eventually being able to treat the city as it does any other major Chinese city - that is, without the special set of rules and allowances that Hong Kong has enjoyed since Great Britain returned the city to China.

Tensions between the two countries have intensified in recent months amid disagreements over how to handle the growing North Korea threat.

NAN reports that on June 3, the council voted to broaden sanctions on North Korea in a unanimous decision from the council's 15 member nations.

This wish simply can not be granted.

The US tested its THAAD missile system on Tuesday by shooting down a simulated incoming intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM).

Tensions rose after North Korea's test this month of an intercontinental ballistic missile that could reach the USA mainland. If China and Russian Federation continue to resist additional sanctions against Pyongyang, it will further aggravate the situation. Putin has also taken advantage of frictions between South Korea and the Trump administration over payments for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system to reiterate his opposition to the missile defense system.

Xi emphasised "efforts to promote talks" with North Korea and did not change his passive attitude. "Whether it's the regime's illegal nuclear weapons program, its provocative ballistic missile tests, its human rights abuses against its own people, or its outrageous and unacceptable detention of Americans, it is time to impose meaningful costs on the North Korean government", he said.

What is worrisome is that USA isolation was prominent at the G-20 summit.

A joint statement released Friday after the summit between President Moon Jae-in, U.S. President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe echoed this statement, saying that the leaders "affirmed the importance of working together" on the matter "to achieve the complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula in a peaceful manner".